The Writers' Castle : Reporting History at Nuremberg - Uwe Neumahr

The Writers' Castle

Reporting History at Nuremberg

By: Uwe Neumahr, Jefferson Chase (Translator)

Hardcover | 29 August 2024

At a Glance

Hardcover


$53.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $13.44 with

 or 

Aims to ship in 10 to 15 business days

Nuremberg, 1946. As the trials of Nazi war criminals begin, some of the world's most famous writers and reporters gather in the ruined German city. Among them are Rebecca West, John Dos Passos, Martha Gellhorn, Erika Mann and Janet Flanner.Crammed together in the press camp at Schloss Faber-Castell, where reporters sleep ten to a room, complain about the food and argue in the lively bar, they each try to find words for the unprecedented events they are witnessing. Here, tensions simmer between Soviet and Western journalists, unlikely affairs begin, stories are falsified and fabricated - and each reporter is forever changed by what they experience.As Uwe Neumahr builds an engrossing group portrait of the luminaries at Nuremberg, we are taken to the heart of the political and cultural conflicts of the time - observing history at the very moment it was being written.
Industry Reviews
'Ranging across the (sometimes shifting) viewpoints of the different writers gathered in Nuremberg, Uwe Neumahr complicates the story in small but important ways... This readable history of the view from the castle shows the many ways in which human beings process transgression, violence and trauma' - TLS

More in Literary Biographies

Wifedom : Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life : Our July Book of the Month - Anna Funder
Radical : A Life of My Own - Xiaolu Guo
Father and Son : A Memoir - Jonathan Raban

$35.75

On Writing : A Memoir of the Craft - Stephen King

RRP $22.99

$21.90

Remembrance of Things Past : Volume 3 - Marcel Proust

RRP $49.99

$38.75

22%
OFF
Night : Penguin Modern Classics - Elie Wiesel

RRP $22.99

$17.75

23%
OFF
An Autobiography - Agatha Christie

RRP $29.99

$27.90

The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion

RRP $24.99

$23.75

Fun Home : A Family Tragicomic - Alison Bechdel

RRP $22.99

$21.90

The Hate Race - Maxine Beneba Clarke

Paperback

RRP $22.99

$21.90

The World of the Brontes - Puzzle : 1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Amber Adams
Bluestocking in Patagonia : Untapped - Anne Whitehead

RRP $24.95

$19.95

20%
OFF
Stay True : Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir - Hua Hsu
Hazzard and Harrower : The letters - Brigitta Olubas

RRP $39.99

$35.35

12%
OFF
A Season of Death : A Memoir - Mark Raphael Baker

RRP $29.99

$27.90

The Snow Leopard : Vintage Classics - Peter Matthiessen

RRP $22.99

$21.50

The Durrells of Corfu - Michael Haag

$24.99

A Memoir of My Former Self : A Life in Writing - Hilary Mantel